Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Echinodermata > Subphylum Asterozoa > Class Asteroidea > Subclass Ambuloasteroidea > Infraclass Neoasteroidea > Superorder Valvatacea > Order Paxillosida > Family Benthopectinidae > Genus Cheiraster > Subgenus Cheiraster (Barbadosaster)

Cheiraster (Barbadosaster) echinulatus (Perrier, 1875)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Pectinaster Perrier, 1885

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Cheiraster*	Studer, 1883	accepted genus name
*Cheiraster (Cheiraster)*	Studer, 1883	synonym

Species group names

*Archaster echinulatus*	Perrier, 1875	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Clark, A. M.; Downey, M. E. (1992). Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman & Hall Identification Guides, 3. Chapman & Hall. London, UK. ISBN 0-412-43280-3. xxvi, 794 pp.
additional source	Pawson, D. L., D. J. Vance, C. G. Messing, F. A. Solis-Marin & C. L. Mah. (2009). Echinodermata of the Gulf of Mexico. Pp. 1177–1204 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College S.

Genbank

Citation

Mah, C.L. (2025). World Asteroidea Database. Cheiraster (Barbadosaster) echinulatus (Perrier, 1875). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178242